And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

he's even on record stating his thoughts on this www.theguardian.com/culture/musi...

Oh man, not D’Angelo. 💔😔

Huge Faulkner stan reporting for duty 🫡

The thought police are people who tell you what to think and demand you think it, not people who tell you what you think is shallow or stupid or thoughtless

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

SEM is excited for this year’s keynote lecture in Atlanta, Georgia, with Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje on Saturday, October 25: “The Fiddle/Violin in African American Culture: Meanings and Associations.” Dr. DjeDje will be introduced by Dr. Birgitta J. Johnson of the University of South Carolina.

Speaker Mike Johnson just extended the House recess through next week, which means members of Congress will keep getting paid for doing nothing while essential staff like members of the military will work without getting paychecks during the shutdown.
That's Republican leadership.

Theorists! My department is hiring (NTT but continuing and good pay): jobs.chronicle.com/job/37895447...

in case you dont understand why trump keeps saying portland is burning, its because he watches this sludge on a loop and thinks its reality

Obviously there is minority support for Trump here...but this is also shockingly low opposition for the idea that the President can turn the military on American cities on a whim.

70% of Republicans think the President should be able to send troops into a city even if the Governor objects!

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

"always already"

Relatedly, I think "clarity" in writing is over-emphasized in grading; or at least, I think there are lots of ways to have writing that expresses ideas clearly that extend beyond niceties of syntax. (But easy for me to say, as someone who doesn't write so much as extrude, like a pasta machine.)

Or put differently: ultimately most of what I teach is music composition, and I am trying to evaluate writing the way I evaluate their music: "Here's what caught my ear as special about what you produced, and why."

one anti-Chat GPT thing I am doing that seems to be working ok is that I am going out of my way to compliment students whose prose is in any way engaging, rhythmically interesting/surprising, or otherwise shows a voice.

"Matt's joking will continue until morale improves"

just feeling shellshocked and humorless in the face of it all.

Sort of a banal and inconsequential gripe but I really miss the days when I felt like making jokes about stuff.

Yet another poll finding the same thing polls have found for months: 66% of Israelis want to end the war, 69% think Netanyahu should resign either now or after the war. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

Folks need to understand that when Trump says blue cities are burning down his supporters believe it cause that’s what Fox has been telling them for years, and no objective reality can penetrate that bubble. Otoh most normal people think that kind of talk is bonkers.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

And I will die on the hill that she said nothing wrong. It was a comment specifically urging people to not write off all Trump supporters, but the press pushed its own insane version of it.